All posts tagged WSJ/NBC Poll

A majority of Americans believe that the U.S. should be even-handed in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, but more people sympathize with Israel’s side of the Middle East split, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll out Tuesday has found. Read More »

President Barack Obama isn’t winning any points for the deal to bring Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl home.

The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found 44% of those surveyed disapproved of the prisoner exchange in which the United States sent five Taliban fighters imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Qatar in exchange for Mr. Bergdahl. Only 30% said it was a deal Mr. Obama should have made. Read More »

Railing against the tea party movement is a staple of Democratic campaigning in 2014 – but it turns out many Republicans are just as frustrated with their party’s insurgent wing.

Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that 41% of non-tea party Republicans believe the tea party has too much influence. Of self-described tea partiers, 56% say they have too little influence, compared with just 3% who said they have too much. Read More »

Americans think Hillary Clinton is capable of being president, but they’re still not sure whether to trust her.

The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found 55% of all voters think Mrs. Clinton is “knowledgeable and experienced enough to handle the presidency,” but more voters disagree than agree with the statement that she is “honest and straightforward.” Read More »

In a recent Think Tank post Linda Killian noted that while the tea party’s overall standing has diminished, it still holds powerful sway over the Republican Party because tea-party supporters are more engaged and likely to vote in primaries. This underscores that while more “mainstream” Republican candidates may have done well in Tuesday’s primaries, as the Wall Street Journal’s Janet Hook noted: “Many GOP incumbents and candidates backed by party leaders have embraced tea-party priorities.”

WSJ/NBC polling data reveal that these priorities are not embraced by about half of all Republicans nor the nation overall. This highlights challenges for Republicans in November. Read More »

Democrats and Republicans are at war over the 2014 midterm elections, but they agree on one thing about the national political terrain: Voters are seething with anti-Washington hostility and a mistrust of government that seems to scream “Throw the bums out!”

At Capital Journal‘s launch event Wednesday, Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution, and Sens. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Jack Reed (D., R.I.) joined Washington Bureau Chief Jerry Seib for a discussion on U.S. foreign policy and Americans’ growing anti-interventionist stance, which was reflected in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Here’s the transcript of the [...] Read More »

Public opinion about the Affordable Care Act hasn’t budged much in the past few months, according to the latest WSJ/NBC News poll, despite rising insurance enrollments and the departure of the Obama administration’s top health official.

Some 36% think the law is a good idea – the same as in March 2010, when the law passed – but up a bit from the 31% who supported it last September just before the law’s rollout. Read More »

Banks are frustrated that regulators, seared by their failure to head off the worst financial crisis in generations, are being so tough on them. The public is frustrated that the regulators aren’t being tougher, and many members of Congress agree with them. Read More »

The new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll produced a surprising answer. Sugar. When Americans were asked their opinion on the most harmful of four substances, tobacco (49%) and alcohol (24%) came in first and second place, followed by sugar (15%) and marijuana. Only 8% said marijuana was the most harmful substance. Read More »

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